Estimate pay for a medical separation or retirement benefits based on DoD disability percentage or years of service to assist in making an informed decision on a medical retirement or, if eligible, a longevity retirement. The High-3 system applies to those who entered service on or after September 8, 1980, but before August 1, 1986, OR entered on or after August 1, 1986, and did not choose the Career Status Bonus (CSB) and REDUX retirement system.
Access to the Medical High-3 calculator requires a CAC or DS Logon. This allows a service member's personnel data to populate the calculator fields for a personalized estimate of medical separation or retired pay.
Sign up for a DS Logon here.
The return home from combat can often leave servicemembers feeling out of place with the most important people in their lives - their families.
"In deployment, Soldiers grow accustomed to a new lifestyle and a new 'family' - those buddies that bond together to defend each other," said Maj. Ken Williams, 14th Military Police Brigade chaplain. "This lifestyle change is prolonged and becomes familiar, i.e., the new normal."
The families also change while the Soldier is deployed.
"The family is a system," Williams said. "When one family member is absent, the whole system changes. All members of the family adapt to a new 'normal' way of life."
When the servicemember returns, the family may feel uncomfortable with each other, and the servicemember may withdraw from the family.